You’re vaccinated. You’re worried. Here’s the main thing to focus on.
Here is a thing that a growing number of Americans who were until recently very risk-averse are learning, as a new, highly contagious variant makes its way around our social circles: Getting COVID might not be such a big deal anymore. Maybe it’s time to realize that it’s just part of life.
That’s the reality for many people right now. And it is reasonable. Short of going into a strict lockdown, there is no way to guarantee that you won’t get the virus, which, fueled by the omicron variant, is now causing New York City’s case count to shoot straight up, with cases climbing faster and higher than at any other time during the pandemic.
Which is why the goal during this wave should maybe not be to avoid getting the virus completely. It may well, in fact, be very much OK if you get the virus—at least, for you. The goal now is maybe to simply avoid spreading it.been the point of the precautions many of us have been taking. It’s true that we’ve been warned again and again and again that young and healthy people can end up on ventilators or with long COVID, that even a “mild” case can feel shockingly terrible.
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